Welcome to the Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel Unlimited! You have now made the important decision or are looking into making the leap of purchasing ESO. This is unfortunately the easiest of the immense amount of decisions you will have to make upon your journey in Tamriel. You are now thinking to yourself, what class, race, and play style do I want? Well the opportunities are endless. Much too popular demand I am going to write up my wealth of knowledge and attempt to guide you on your adventures. This is a compilation of many different sources for which I will link all references as I use them to give the proper credit that is due to the members of the community that have worked hard to bring this. I have created this guide from my own collected knowledge and through conversations with others. This by no means is a perfect document and will most likely be full grammar mistakes since I am a scientific and math oriented person. If you have any questions please feel free to ask questions, contribute discussions or contact me at any time. In game of ESO @crazmadsci, on twitch http://www.twitch.tv/crazmadsci, or email [email protected] This is a working document and will be continuously improved and expanded as time permits.

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Character Creation Congratulations, you are now capable to create your new best friend! This character will be your companion for many hours and days to come. In order to sign into the game you will have to complete four categories of character creations.

1. Alliance and Race For the background information on the alliance war check out and Lore of the Story check out. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Factions_%28Online%29 These brief descriptors full of incredible information made by the elder scrolls wiki that may help you choose which faction to play.

Aldmeri Dominion: The Aldmeri Dominion was a faction that united the provinces of Summerset Isles, Valenwood and Elsweyr. Its capital, Elden Root, was found deep within the forests of Valenwood. The faction's dominant race was the Altmer, who ensured that the races of Bosmer and Khajiit would join their cause. The Aldmeri Dominion was led by the young Altmer Queen Ayrenn. The main goal of the Aldmeri Dominion was to protect Tamriel from the Daedric disasters that Nirn faced, and spare the continent from the corruption of Men. To their minds, the short-lived race of Men were not worthy of ruler's role, and the only solution would be to take the throne for themselves.

Increases experience gain with the Destruction Staff Skill Line by 15% Increases Magicka Recovery while in combat by 3/6/9% Increases Maximum magicka by 4/7/10% Increases damage with Cold, Fire or Shock effects by 2/3/4%

Daggerfall Covenant: The Daggerfall Covenant was a faction uniting the provinces of High Rock, Orsinium and Hammerfell. Its capital, Wayrest, was a great port city on the shore of the Iliac Bay. The dominant race of the Daggerfall Covenant was the Breton. With the help of their merchant' skillful diplomacy, the Daggerfall Covenant manages to

ally with the races of Redguard and Orsimer. The faction was led by the merchant High King Emeric. With the fall of the Imperial City the renown trade routes of the Daggerfall Covenant races were disrupted. With no more trade the region could not prosper. Poverty and suffering spread throughout the land. By reclaiming the Ruby Throne, the Daggerfall Covenant sought to return the Empire and, more importantly, cities of the Iliac Bay to their former wealth

Breton    

Increases experience gain with the Light Armor skill line by 15% Increases Maximum Magika by 4/7/10% Increases Spell Resistance by X/2X/3X* Reduces the Magika Cost of Spells by 1/2/3%

Redguard    

Increases experience gain with the OneHanded and Shield skill line by 15% Increases Stamina Recovery by 3/6/9% Increases Maximum Stamina 4/7/10% Restores X/2X/3X Stamina to player when damaging an enemy with a Melee attack. This can happen no more than once every 5/3/3 seconds*

Orc    

Increases experience gain with the Heavy Armor Skill line by 15% Increases Maximum Health and Maximum Stamina by 2/4/6% Increases Health Recovery while in combat by 10/20/30% Reduces Sprint Cost by 4/8/12% and increases Sprint speed by 3/6/10%. Increase damage on Charge attacks by 2/4/6%

Ebonheart Pact The Ebonheart Pact was a faction uniting the provinces of Skyrim, Morrowind and Black Marsh. Its capital, Mournhold, was situated on the mainland of Morrowind. The dominant race of the Ebonheart Pact was the Nord. The Dunmer and, eventually, the Argonians joined forces along with the Nords to survive the Second Akaviri Invasion. The leader of the faction was High King Jorunn. He, however, did not have all the power over the provinces, as a Great Moot was summoned, a council of all the allied races, whom he had to hear out. Having protected Tamriel from the Akaviri, the members of the Ebonheart Pact thought to have earned the right as the rulers. Moreover, ever since the great conquests of the Nords in the First Era, they thought themselves to be superior and the rightful rulers of Tamriel.

Nord    

Increases experience gain with the twohanded Weapon Skill line by 15% Increases Health Recovery while in combat by 10/20/30% Increases Frost Resistance by X/2X/3X. Maximum Health by 1/2/3% Reduces incoming damage by 2/4/6%

Argonian  

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Dunmer

Increases experience gain with the Restoration Skill Line by 15% Increases Swimming speed by 50% and whenever you drink a potion you gain 6% of your max health, stamina, and magicka Increases Maximum Health by 1/2/3% and Poison and Disease Resistance by X/2X/3X* Increases Healing received by 2/4/6%

Increases experience gain with the One-Handed and Shield Line Skill line by 15% Increases Maximum Health by 4/8/12% Increases Maximum Stamina by 4/7/10% Melee attacks have a 10% chance to restore X/2X/3X*

Note: All stats marked with a * indicate scaled values by level

Racial Bonuses Comparisons: Now for the long awaited analysis of the racial bonuses! Pulling together all the racial bonuses and ranking each category from largest benefit to the lowest. All races have benefits to experience gain to either armor or a weapon. All other passives are shown below as a comparison to each other by category.

So now you may ask…. So makes makes this information useful? Well as you can see there are several unique ways to see that in some situations the choice of one race other the other has significant bonuses. For example it is shown that the Redguard has a better stamina regeneration than the Bosmer with a 1% higher overall stamina the same recovery in combat but has the opportunity to restore additional stamina while attacking with a melee unit. The imperial race has a 4x maximum health value over the Argonian and the Nord however both those races have resistances. The nord may have less overall health but can reduce all incoming damage up to 6%. Balancing the options of racial bonuses to your own play style could lead to an optimum build. Don’t be afraid to play around with it!

1. Classes a. b. c. d.

Dragonknight Sorcerer Nightblade Templar

Choosing a class will provide three class skill lines specific to each class. There are five active ability slots and an ultimate per weapon and you unlock the second weapon at level 15 for a total of 10 active abilities and two ultimate’s. Each of the three skill lines provide a unique template for which you can design your character to your play style; heals, tanky, or butt kicking damage dealer. You could even create a character that is a combination traits. You should in no way feel restricted by your class choice and your style of play. In some situations some classes exhibit stronger tendencies to heal, tank or even sneaky damage deal for those of you who wish to min/max. However the game is intended and designed to be flexible to style of play. Now that we have gone over the racial bonuses, it is time to talk about class choice. Players can choose four classes from, Dragonknight, Sorcerer, Templar, and Nightblade. Let us break down the class choices and what they all have to offer and potential approaches you can apply for each character.

Dragonknight “These skillful masters-at-arms use the ancient Akaviri martial arts tradition of battle-spirit, and wield fearsome magic that pounds, shatters and physically alters the world around them.”

The dragonknight is the closest thing a player can get to a warrior class. These players apply the skill trees; Ardent Flame, Draconic Power, and Earthen Heart. This fiery class is by far one of the most common choices for it’s damage mitigation usage as end game tanks and crazy high DPS dealers.

Ardent Flame: This class skill tree is the most offensive skill line of the three. The ardent flame harnesses flame damage to deal massive DoT effects, pull enemies in closer, and even provide a few debuffing effects.

Draconic Power: Harnesses the power of the dragon with earth grabbing talons, regeneration for health with green dragon blood, and even reflect spells for defensive bonuses. This class is in many ways one of the best skill trees for survivability to continue to fight and take down those enemies.

Earthen Heart: Is the bread and butter of crowd control and damage mitigation. Not only do you use the power of rock to pound people into the ground, petrify them into statues, you can even bring up a cloud of ash to deal damage and get it into your enemies eyes to reduce their movement speed. Common Race Choice:  Imperial  Orc (DC)  Nord (EP)  Dunmer (EP)  Redguard (DC)  Argonian (EP) Redguard is a great choice for stamina DK. Dunmer to help make that ardent flame skill tree shine. The rest are typically chosen as great tanks.

Sorcerer “Sorcerers can use conjuration and destruction spells to hurl lightning bolts and create shock fields, wield dark magic to snare and stun, and summon Daedric combat followers from Oblivion to assist them.”

The sorcerer is the definition of mage or wizard type characters. These classes are commonly used as DPS or healers but have shown up a few times as tanks using magicka summoned armor. These fun characters can be seen streaking away in PvP or actually summoning pets to fight for you.

Dark Magic: In many cases is one of the best crowd control skill bars allowing you to imprison and curse enemies. This skill lines even allows to conjure dark crystals to shoot your enemies and stun or even exchange an attribute for other attributes. Deadric Summoning: Allows conjuration of creatures and minions to fight for you or to help deal damage or take damage. This skill bar also allows you to

create wards or summoned armor to protect yourself in battle making it ideal for those Sorcerer tanks.

Storm Calling: Is one of the most offensive class skill lines using the power of lightning to deal massive amounts of damage. Between streaking away to hide from the massive zergs in cyrodiil and improving your weapon damage, this skill line provides unique abilities to create a character special to your own design. Common Race Choices:  Altmer (AD)  Breton (DC)  Dunmer (EP)

Nightblade “Nightblades are adventurers and opportunists with a gift for getting in and out of trouble. Relying variously on stealth, blades, and speed. Nightblades thrive on conflict and misfortune, trusting to their luck and cunning to survive.”

Nightblades are the most commonly the most sneaky of assassins. Do not anger one or they will stab you in the back. Not only do these players have incredible damage coming out of combat but are commonly found jumping at you for the most unlucky of times in PvP. These characters are typically damage dealing and on occasion find the unique healer using the siphoning tree or even a tank.

Assassination: This skill tree allows heavy damage dealing through impaling for executes or ambushing coming into battle. These abilities can let you evade enemies or even mark enemies for your friends to attack.

Shadow: As the skill line describes this skill line is for those sneaky assassins providing abilities to terrify your enemy scaring them away or even blending into the night and disguise yourself for periods of time.

Siphoning: What is better than sucking the power and soul out of your enemies? Not only can you funnel the health from enemies and help heal your allies. You can also reduce your opponents agility you can improve weapon damage and movement speed.

Templar “These traveling knights call upon the powers of light and the burning sun to deal massive damage to their enemies while restoring health, magicka, and stamina to their allies.”

Templars are another class that is capable to be a jack of all trades. Not only can you use holy light to heal your allies, you can harness the heat of the sun to do fire damage, and you can form light to create spears and throw javelins at your enemies. This class is most commonly found as one of the most powerful healers in the game. But these players can also be great tanks and DPS players. Common Races Choice:  Breton: (DC)  Altmer: (AD)  Dunmer: (EP)

Aedric Spear: This skill line can summons spears and javelins to do incredible amounts of damage. Not only is this class great with powerful passives to improve weapon damage you can also summon powerful shields or provide support by stunning and providing synergies to restore ally attributes.

Dawn’s Wrath: If summoning spears is not enough you can use fire to deal other amounts of great damge. You can eclipse enemies in light that can reflect back their own damage. Also now known for its famous nickname the “Jesus Beam” burns enemies with holy fire is found here as an incredibly fun execute against enemies.

Restoring Light: Famous for powers of healing. This skill line offers a great line of survivability for those solo players while providing one of the strongest burst heals in the game. You even have the power to consecrate the souls of the dead and restore health and stamina from fallen corpses.

So what does all of this mean? Let’s put the information of racial bonuses and classes together to answer all of those questions we all know we ask and answer hundreds of times.

Types of Common Questions: Does the choice of race for my class and playstyle really matter all that much? I will not deny that the choice of race and playstyle working hand and hand can make your character stronger. However players can play well and be completive with unique combinations of races, classes and playstyles.

What are the most common class choices and playstyles (tank, healers, and DPS)? Before I go into the current most popular of choices for who tanks, heals or deals the most damage. It is still entirely possible to be successful to do all three things on each of the classes. Arguably though there are some classes that make it easier to accomplish various roles over other classes. I encourage to not be discouraged if your class is not listed in the idea role you wish to play. It is still very possible for you to accomplish your goal.

Tanks: The Dragonknight is one of the most common and popular of choices due to its damage mitigation and crowd controlling abilities. The second most common choice of tank is also the Templar due to their survivability capability. 

All of these classes improve health however both the Orc and Imperial have improved magicka and health values. Argonian is unique as a tank due to up to 6% increased on healing received. Nords are interesting tanks due to a 6% reduction in all incoming damage.

Healers: The Templar has be notorious as one of the best healers in the game by having one of the 3 skill lines being for healing. Not only that but one of the only burst heals in game are found on the Templar line. Other great healers are also sorcerers with creative nightblade builds, and support dragonknight heals on the side.  Atlmer (AD)  Breton: (DC)  Dunmer-:(EP) Both the altmer and dunmer offer unique bonuses for destructive damage or fire damage with increases to magic. The altmer is the only one of these three three races that has improved regeneration in combat. An interesting additional passive for the Brenton’s allows for a total of 3% reduction of spell cost

DPS: Every class can successfully DPS in game.

Common Combinations of Races, Classes, and Roles: Now let us combine this information and through process of choosing your race, class and role. What racial bonuses are most important? What is the current favorite choices for class, race and roles? Lets break it down. There are several good things to know when choosing a race and class. The first thing you always need to do when deciding that you want to be is figure out what play style you wish to spend your time doing. Once that happens you can start to eliminate choices so they can fit that play style. One racial passive that helps only when leveling are bonuses to leveling either a weapon or an armor type. These are only short-term gains are will not help in end game play. Once of the most important racial bonuses people should start looking when choosing a race are bonuses to magicka, stamina, and health and in some cases regeneration of those while in combat. I find that these passives are

highly invaluable because there is no situation in the game, including the champion system, where you can increase your overall attributes for your character no matter the situation. *Note*: There are passives such as the undaunted line that can increase magicka, stamina, health based on the number of different armor types you are wearing. Typically melee build characters should look for races that support stamina based play styles where casters are magicka. Suggested things to try would be a redguard (king of stamina) for those melee builds, nightblade, Templar (for DPS or tank spec), or dragonknight. Casters who want to do magicka based DPS I would highly suggest the dunmer or the altmer due to bonuses to fire or destruction abiltiies common classes for those are sorcerers, dragonknights and Templars.

2. Body Design You can become as skinny, fat, short, and tall. Vary in scale design, spotted fur, skin color etc. based on your own personal whims and desires. Just don’t get carried away with messing around with those posterior dimensions. The world is at your fingertips. 3. Face Design Now this is the part that is important make sure you don’t make a character with crossed eyes!

Character Name: Be careful with using special characters in your character name such as accents. Other players will not be able to interact with you for trades, invites, whispering, etc.

Wow! Now wasn’t that complicated? You have just figured out your class, race, faction and appearance. Now what? Well you just popped out in the starter cities of each faction and man there are so many things to look at! What are you going to do now? Well here is……..

Top 10 Tips for Starting Characters 1) Make sure that 1 ability of every class skill line is on your ability bar to level your class skills while questing to unlock all future abilities for your class. 

This is further explained in the next section on experience gain.

2) Wear at least 1 medium, 1 heavy, and 1 light piece of armor to unlock the active abilities for each armor type and all passives.  

The game is in constant flux and you never know when you need to change a piece of gear. Since you do not have enough skill points to use any of the passives it does not matter what armor you wear. It might even improve survivability by wearing more pieces of heavy.

3) Start the Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, and Undaunted   

Purchase Intimidate and Persuade passives in the Fighters and Mages guild. This will significantly assist you in quests. You will need all active guilds in order to be a successful player If you begin questing without starting the guilds, you could miss out on experience gain to level the guild skill lines.

4) Commit a crime to unlock the Legerdemain skill line  

However be careful when looting objects. You will unintentially commit a crime and have a massive debt to society and guards killing you on sight. Therefore, if you open a chest while questing you level your justice system tree!

5) Buy a horse as fast as you can and take riding lessons  

Speed if you intend to PvP and end game raid. Capacity for PvE players It does not matter what horse you buy as long as you start leveling your riding skills since the horses are only skins.

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The stable master can train you in three categories: Stamina, Speed, and Capacity. You can train 1 level every 20 hours for 250g. Currently horses you buy in game with gold do not matter what price range 10K or 42K they act only as skins. Save your gold and buy the 10K horse and start leveling your riding skills right away!

6) Collect as many pieces of armor and glyphs as you can and deconstruct them all to level your crafts when you go to town. 

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If you wish to be self-sustaining for crafting. Inspiration gain (experience for crafting) is larger for deconstructing something you did not craft vs crafting your own. If you deconstruct items, you can use the materials to craft items and trade with others to deconstruct.

7) Start researching traits as soon as possible. Important traits first if you can. 

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Research traits can be learned that can be crafted to weapons and armor you make in the future. Important traits to keep an eye out of while questing: o Armor: Training, Infused, Divine, Impenetrable o Weapons: Precise, Training, Sharpened, Infused

Note: As an example Exploration trait shown on the right for footman piece found from Dragonstar Arena in Craglorn 8) You can use your mail as an inventory space by mailing items to others and having them return it so you don’t have to keep going to town so often.   

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In order to mail items to other players simply press the apostrophe (‘) Fill in the mail form and make sure you are send all your gold to @crazmadsci ……. Just kidding. Attach items with E, you can have up to 6 stacks of items in a mail at a time. o Cost of a mail is 10g + 1g per item Press R to send when ready

9) Farm all raw nodes and materials and sell them to make some quick money since your refinement isn’t leveled yet. 

Refinement in crafting is the process of taking 10 raw ore, rough wood, or cloth material and producing ignots, sanded wood, and bolts of cloth. While refining there is a potential drop rate for trait stones, style stones, and temper materials such as legendary materials. Since you are still new to the game your craft is not leveled very high so therefore it is more beneficial to sell the stacks of raw materials to others to make a few extra coins to get that extra bag space.

10) Find a great guild to do content and ask questions or just ask questions in zone. 

Guilds are by far some of the best features in the game allowing you to meet great players and get a sense of the great community.

Experience Gain for Skill Lines, Abilities, and Guilds In order to fulfill your dreams of the optimal build the first step is to unlock all abilities and level your skill lines. As players quest and kill mobs the experience you gain is stored in several locations.

Character Experience: All experience gain advances the characters level. Why is this important? Well duh you become stronger and stronger and get to do more challenging and enjoyable content. Skill Line Experience: Using abilities, wearing different armor types, gaining achievements, and reading lore books are only a few ways to level your skill lines. Important: Make sure you read every bookshelf. You never know if it is chalk full of knowledge to level one or two of your skills!    

Importance? By leveling skill lines you can unlock new abilities to use and passives to improve your character. Ability Experience: Using abilities on your active ability bar allow the abilities to level and improve as the player uses it. Each ability improves in two phases of 1 to the end of 4. Once a player levels an ability to end of 4 the ability is capable of becoming morphed with the expense of a skill point to improve the ability in one of two ways of the players specific choosing. You should even level both morphs of an ability. Note: This may sound complicated by I mention the end of phase 4 for a ability since it is essentially phase 5 however you never will see 5 listen in your abilities. Once hitting level 5 you will be able to morph it. Why so serious? Leveling each ability from stages 1 to 4 and morph allows for not only a stronger ability but each stage the ability damage, heal, or mitigation increases to adjust to the higher-level enemies.

Note: In order to ensure you have access to all abilities & morphs start by making sure you are using a variety of skills and armor pieces to level each skill tree and ability.

Fighters Guild: A player can unlock ablilities and passives in the fighters guild by destroying dark anchors and killing daedra and undead.

This is the city map of Daggerfall city in Glenumbra. I have labeled the most of the basic icons that you will see in the cities across your adventures. If there is ever a icon you do not know what it means put your cursor over it and the name of the icon will show.

In the map above you can see that there are a wide variety of icons on the map that can help you navigate the city, However there are even more found in each zone. By clearning everything on the map icons will turn from black to white. Many of these exploration icons will give you even extra experience to help progress you character. If you feel you are under leveled check your map to see

if you missed something. Sometimes you even get bonus experience by gaining achievements clearning a world boss or delve.

World Boss

Dolmen/Dark Anchor

Delve

Addons: There are plenty of add-ons that can greatly assist you in finding things that can help you level your character, find missing quests, record where you picked up materials etc. The absolute best way for add-on management, updating and finding new addons, I highly suggest the use and installation of Minion- the Premier AddOn Mangament. http://minion.mmoui.com/

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info128-SkyShards.html Lorebooks: Assist you in leveling the Mages Guild http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info288-LoreBooks.html

There are also plenty of other really great addons I would highly suggest using and will probably reference in my future guides.

Basic MMO & ESO Terminology: AD: Aldermeri Dominion DC: Daggerfall Covenant EP: Ebonheart Pact WTS/ WTB: Willing to sell & want to buy WTT: Want to Trade LFG: Looking for Group LFM: Looking for More CC: Crowd Control Aggro: how much attention someone has from the enemies DOT: Damage over Time HOT: Heal over time AOE: Area of Effect PvP: Player vs Player PvE: Player vs Environment PUG: Pick up Group PST: Whisper

Basic Social Commands /say- speak in the local area of a small radius for everyone to read /yell- just like say command but it is red and angry /group- speak with members of your group

/zone- speak to everyone within the zone /guild1 or /g1- speak to the guilds are you are in. Number 1-5 dictate the order of which you joined the guild /bug – The slash command used to open the bug reporting UI within the ingame Help Portal UI /chatlog – The slash command to toggle chat logging on or off /emote or /e or /me – A list of all the slash commands that activate the /emote slash command /feedback – The slash command used to open the “Feedback” window within the in-game Help Portal UI /fps – The slash command to toggle the display of current framerate /help – The slash command used to open the in-game Help Portal UI (defaults to the Knowledgebase window) /jumptoleader – The slash command to jump to the wayshrine/graveyard closest to the group leader /logout – A slash command to log off of the current server /quit -The slash command to exit the game /reloadui – The slash command to reload the ui so that it loads from source xml and lua files /stuck – The slash command to claim that you are stuck in geometry/character is out of the world and need server assistance

One of the best sources of places to get your questions answered, and get up to date on what is happening

Official Forums: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en  Location for Official Patch Notes and developer discussion

Tamriel Jounral: http://tamrieljournal.com/ 

My Personal go to place for interactive maps for the delves, treasuremaps, even a alchemy simulator

Tamriel Foundry: http://tamrielfoundry.com/ 

Run by the guild Entropy Rising. o Fantastic place for Community discussion on builds, written crafting overview o Personal Favorite Article explains all you need to know about Dark Anchors; http://tamrielfoundry.com/2014/05/dark-anchors-in-eso/

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